The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-09
wnNpEl,s or YoLAruK.

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! woNDEns OF voLApuK.
a Glance Mt tho Newly Iuvsnted World
Lnngopge-somc Queer Fentures. lr
Cincinnati 7iats-Siar.
Among tho curious books which the
Public Library has just received from
England Is a grammar and vocabulary OF
Yolapuk, tho universal language. 10 be
accurate, II might DO we'll to say thu. 1t is
not yet the universal tongue, but thu! Is
what Ito inventor, DR.. Jonathan Martin
sehleyer, wise German s.utent, do.
sifned tito be.
II reduces tho number OF Letters OF The
slphabst (which 10 ja.ab ii Volapuk) to
twenty.four, discasd!ns q and ". The
lornlers nound Is. written XIV, so that quea.
ton would bs spelled kYueation, while v
takeH the place Of ". IT ayoidH q distinct.
I've feminine as fur ss possible, and forms
the feminine BY ptsaxlug i-gAe-tO tho
boy and jt.pu! 10 girl; jsval Is horse and
ji.javal 10 mare; man is man and ji.msn Is
woman. Ii josh Billings were writing in
Volspuk, and wanted to be swfully funny
he could not ssy female woman, which
looked 80 wildly humorous in Eoglisb, but
he would have to content himaelf with
yomlk js.msn which would probably give
the reader paralysis OF the eyes o grant
lation OF the lids were tbs oEunss often re-
pealed. WerO VIC writing .of E. L. Harper
or the la!e Mr.. Ives and wished to spoak
Of them as iNapolcous OF Finance, this
would be the LIQUID way in which we
would expresa it: Napoleon Fiuanay.
Sometimes tho Language would DO q
saving OF time. II man who was not O
Prohibitionlet wanted glass Of beer he
would not have to cay "Gimme beer"
II no would sing out "Bill," tho waiter
would understand him. But the drlnker
must be careful, FOR tho leaet dizziness
might have disastrous effect on ones
speech, and 1t q fellow orco trips on VOLTA
puk he Is loGt. Fancy tipsy man trying
10 cay that he mus: 90 hons early, for
early 10 godslik. That would mix up his
teeth and lips ard tonscs in ouch Bnarl
that he would never speak again.
Ono Of the good things about the Ian
sunge is thas it would deotroy the dudes.
they might indulge in tho big, manly ci-
gar which is called zjSad, but they could
90. have cigarettes, for there is nc word
for cigarette. Ills snnihilated. An honor
TO Volspuk for this! sEis
But to the man in Iowa Volspuk would
DO emineutly unsatisfactory. Fancy a
nan burning With passion telling hia fair
1umEel "aiiofob deYodicu," which means
literally translated, ~ love you tevo.
!edly," and il she thought tina. hs was
Fostering her with his intentiona she
Sould draw herself up to her full height
and ssy baugh!iy ard crushingly:
"Omnmob fat, which being translated
la: "l'lt tell pa"
Then 10 might whisper gently, II he un-
de!stood the ways OF girls:
''Loist."
And the nearer would then catch tho
sound Of c "murcl kid" as two faces came
nearer and lips met lovingly and the old,
old asory (baledik, bs!edik lussg) would
| have bSsn told agsiu. OF courGo the
reader will realiss that "muyol kid"
means a Rurmurous kiHa. It really ought
to be kide, for no flesh and blood man
ever stopped at ono kiss when he could
take two.
The swearer would iiud Volspuk nui.
eencs. So lar as q careful study OF the
vocabulary goes it hrs only one sSear
Sord, Gna that is damn. Now il English
damn ia wonderfully expressive. 1t means
more sometimes than whole library full
ci dead bookH. Somehow the word sin.
sula.ly fits tho multitude Of ideas which
It often simultaneously eSpreBses. Bn. in
Vo!epuk 1t is "kodemon," which takes ell
the starch out Of 1t. II a mad man boiled
over and had to stop to catch that thee.
syllabled word befors no could give vent
to his dwelling feelings, he would choke TO
death. e. 5,...s ..t5 a1ri.l,
The SUDDEN. Of Volapuk geography
would fud himself 81 Gea-no pun intend.
ed-ior sll the names Of the continents
have been changed, Why this was done
Ia not spparent but it was presumably Tor
uniformity. Europe became Yulop,
America, Telop; Asia, Stop; Africa, Flop,
snd australia is Tolop. Fanny, aren't
they? The Pacific is s.ilamel The Baltic,
Lefudamsl, and the Atlantic IL Mel Allan.
tx. s5., E6li
But 10 appreciate Yolapuk ono must zoe
1t on the printed page. Take simple
sentence like thig: ''lf usomom Noval,
ogetoba nid," which lneRnB that whom
November comes wo will have Sow. Or
how does thia look "Palofobs IA obs"
We are loved by esch other. There is
one good thing about the grammar, how.
ever, TINT every student OF languages will
Gppreciste. It han for exercises 70 such
eenteuces na " eco the pink cat OF my
black aunt" or nWhere Is the red brother
Of your blue father?" end the like
atrocities, of which Ollendosf Is full. The
explanatory and sample phrases are elm.
pie, but not aDauyd. They do rot insult
The intelligent scholar BY their ridiculous:
ncss. .;.f&
| Mr.. Whslsiey, Librarian Of the Public
Library, says that every week no gees Ia
the European book liats notices. OF books
aud pamphlets publiehed in the world
language, and that its use is growing. He
intendsto buy number OF cheap Yolapuk
books, and OF colr5o thoIe will he lively
| demand Tor them. But tho Language car
never hope 10 make much progress IN
America. In Europe, where the need o.
q common meiuou oi coiunlNnica!ion Il
felt moro frequently, 1t seems to DO grow
ing popular. In Russia it is being taught
4 Nhile al over Germany, AustfiG and ths
scandinavian States, Norway, Denmark
aud SHesden, it is being studied by schol
ars. $40 {2.s 4
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